Новости за 04.02.2016

DETROIT - Haggling over a car price isn't always a bargain. There are head-scratching discount offers and long waits while the salesperson checks with their manager, among the many horror stories.

WASHINGTON - China's yuan will chip away at the U.S. dollar's dominance over the next decade but is unlikely to supplant it as the world's top currency, says a report from a federal watchdog.

ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania - Airport officials say two tires under the left wing of an airplane blew out during a landing at a Pennsylvania airport.

RECIFE, Brazil - The first time I met Solange Ferreira was in December. She was at a hospital, waiting to hear from a doctor whether her baby boy had what so many in her village were talking about - microcephaly, or an abnormally small head that is a sign of severe disabilities and a truncated life-expectancy.

GREENFIELD, Indiana - A central Indiana woman has pleaded guilty to child neglect charges in connection with her 1-year-old daughter's death.

WASHINGTON - Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell for the fifth straight week amid volatility in world financial markets.

NEW YORK - Lauren Gunderson is such a rare theatrical talent, you might be tempted to approach her very quietly, so as not to frighten her away.

NEW YORK - Country singer Chris Stapleton will join Gary Clark Jr. and Bonnie Raitt at the Grammy Awards later this month for a tribute to the late blues master B.B. King.

WASHINGTON - U.S. productivity fell sharply in the final three months of 2015, closing out a fifth straight year of weak gains in worker efficiency.

NEW YORK - IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc., which owns the New York Stock Exchange, on Thursday reported a 28 percent boost in fourth-quarter profit on higher data services and listing fees.

ALBANY, New York - A modern-day glassblower believes he has unraveled the mysteries of Renaissance-era Venetian glassmaking, a trade whose secrets were so closely guarded that anyone who divulged them faced the prospect of death.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - A Michigan man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a hit-and-run crash that killed a Chicago man who had just left a Notre Dame football game.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Country legend Merle Haggard has canceled his shows in February due to health issues caused by pneumonia in both lungs.

NEW YORK - The New York Times Co. (NYT) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $51.7 million.

LEXINGTON, Kentucky - Tempur Sealy International Inc. (TPX) on Thursday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $11.3 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.

ATLANTA - Run-DMC will open up for the Red Hot Chili Peppers at a pre-Super Bowl concert in San Francisco.

KOKOMO, Indiana - For most of his life, 17-year-old Cole Kuckolick has been painfully shy.

REDDING, Indiana - Fifty years is a long time to stay with one job.

VINCENNES, Indiana - Vincennes University officials say the opening of the campus' new $13 million student union has been delayed until this fall because the scope of the project has grown.

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - Authorities say two people are dead after a two-vehicle crash in northeastern Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Department of Revenue is continuing to offer free federal and state filing to taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of $62,000 or less.

NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania - The latest on Bill Cosby's court appearance on a felony sexual assault charge (all times local):

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana lawmakers passed similar, competing bills Wednesday aimed at giving pharmacists the ability to prevent methamphetamine cooks from buying pseudoephedrine, a common ingredient in the illegal drug.

BALTIMORE - The Latest on a hearing for a convicted murderer seeking a new trial in a case that was examined in the podcast "Serial." (all times local):

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Gov. Mike Pence isn't saying whether he would have signed the state Senate's failed proposal for extending antidiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.